_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

My wife hadn’t seen Avatar and we started watching it together recently. After an hour she didn’t understand why she was watching a boring film that looks like a video game without the fun of being able to play it and decided to stop watching – and I totally got her point.

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I mean it’s not particularly sophisticated in its deployment, but ‘industrialized colonists v. naturist natives’ is kind of an archetype and I’m not sure what coded racial stuff is in there that’s particularly icky? Seemed intentionally broad. Unless you’re referring to something specific that I’m forgetting.

I liked Avatar. I mean a lot’s been written about how it made a bazillion dollars yet made absolutely minimal cultural impact considering. It did evaporate off of me almost immediately. But, y’know, had fun seeing it in IMAX, good spectacle, action set pieces were solid.

I’m actually kinda stoked for Part 2. I’m a sucker for underwater shit.

I rode the 3D Avatar ride at Disney World in February and it was awesome. It made me want to see another Avatar movie. (Because it would be a lot cheaper than going to Disney World again.)

Avatar: The Way Of Holding Your Water:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-runtime-1235251391/

Film expert Gregg Turkington (as seen on AMC) just called this the greatest movie of all time

nonsense. that would have to be either The Greatest Show on Earth or The Greatest Story Ever Told.